A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Harold Coffin

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

Lee Ann Womack

The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Mark Zuckerberg

Do the next thing.

John Wanamaker

Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

Christian Nevell Bovee

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Vaclav Havel

A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.

Thomas Carlyle

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.

Adrienne Rich

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Bernard Berenson

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

...it possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.

Bertrand Russell

Love is like the measles, we all have to go through it.

Jerome K Jerome